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We mentioned this earlier, "new york times" report today paints a picture of a trump legal team struggling to find a strategy in real time as the president's troubles close in. trump's roster of attorneys has been influx, notably with the departures of john dowd and ty cobb earlier this year, and the impending departure of white house counsel don mcgahn this fall. trump now has lawyers based mostly in washington and new york, and according to that "times" report by our friends, haberman and schmidt, "the expanding legal team is struggling to understand where the investigations could be headed ...

Hatch trying to discredit this accuser without even saying her name. dr. ford. he's not met dr. ford. he's not heard her story other than reading the news reports and he's already concluded that she must be mixed up and that her allegations are not true. if you see that in that hearing live from all 11 of those republican male senators, that could be a real political problem for the republican party which already is struggling to hold on in some of these suburban house districts that are going to decide which party ends up winning control of the house of representatives. >> maya, to your point...

>> matt, the president doesn't want the fbi involved here. he would very much like the fbi to reveal formerly confidential communications that could reveal sources and methods, conceivably. >> yeah, it's a bit ironic after a year and a half the president making repeated inappropriate depand demands of the fbi, one thing he won't ask them to do is investigate allegations of sexual assault. at the same time as you point out, he's taking this step using the powers of the presidency to advance his personal interests. what he's doing with declassi declassifying this information. you have to go back...

It again. they can do that very promptly and that's what you need to do. and, you know, president trump doesn't know what he's talking about if he says this isn't what the fbi does. they do it all the time. we had a roomful of files with information based on fbi investigations of presidential nominees for senate-confirmed positions. so it's time for the fbi to get to work, take them a week or so, then they can have the hearing. but they shouldn't haul in dr. ford and other witnesses without the fbi investigation first. that makes absolutely no sense. >> richard painter was the ethics lawyer in...

Chuck, not the first time i asked you to fact check the president, likely won't be the last. when the president says this isn't their kind of thing, and they really don't want to do it, what should we think? >> we should take a look at the letter, "i," brian, in fbi, because it actually stands for "investigation." this is precisely their thing. this is what they do every day around the country and around the world. they do investigations. but the wayprotocol. this is not their first rodeo. this is not their first background investigation. they pass along information to the white house on mr. k...